La Pie's original menu featured a snack for the elderly and children. It looks like a miniature version of a carrot, but it's actually made from carrot juice and pasta, and filled with a mixture of mozzarella cheese, grilled bacon and chopped onions. The chef who invented this dish used to be a Cantonese chef, so the baked dim sum has a bit of a combination of Chinese and Western flavors. Carrot crisp was once very popular and became a popular dish in restaurants, until the chef was finally poached by the back kitchen of a large hotel, and the dish disappeared with his departure.

After he left, no one could bake the perfect carrot crisp, and the filling was not a problem, but the shape of the stupid little carrot could not be replicated anyway. In desperation, the newly printed menu has the same brand - "crispy", and the picture below is replaced by the original carrot crisp to the classic Napoleon crisp, although the custard sauce prepared by the new pastry chef tastes impeccable, but Sheng always has a regret in his heart, feeling that this dish has lost its previous interest.

Sure enough, a woman came to the store that day, with a little girl about five or six years old, who was named to eat the small carrot cake that had disappeared for a while. The beautiful young man sighed secretly, facing the little girl's big watery eyes, he couldn't bear to spoil her interest.

"Ma'am, that's right. The pastry chef in our shop has left, and now no one can make carrot crisp. Look at the Napoleon pastry on our new menu, a pastry chef's specialty, sweet but not greasy, your daughter will love it. ”

"............" The woman's face was slightly gloomy, and she lowered her voice and muttered, "She's not my daughter." ”

"Ahh I'm really sorry...... I'm so sorry! The handsome young man wanted to bite off his tongue at the moment, and the boss repeatedly emphasized that he should not speculate on the relationship between the guests, and his brain could never control the enthusiasm that had nowhere to be placed.

"Auntie, I still want to eat that crisp from last time." The little girl makes an effort to make a delicious memory of it.

"Didn't they say no? Crisp is the same meaning, you try the sweetness this time, not necessarily worse than the last time. The woman looked like she wanted to end the conversation as soon as possible: "Just ask for this Napoleon pastry, two more hot lattes, and give her a glass of warm milk." ”

"Yes, ma'am. You ordered a Napoleon crisp, a glass of warm milk, and two hot lattes......" The handsome young man repeated the woman's order as usual: "Is there another guest?" Do I give you another set of cutlery? ”

"No, she eats alone. My friend and I stayed with her and only drank coffee. ”

"Okay, wait a minute."

She leaned back to the bay window next to the couch and looked at the fish in the pool where they were feeding. No matter how beautiful things are, they have no beauty at all when they are hungry. Appetite, let them sweep away the leisurely and comfortable appearance of the past, and don't care about the dreamy and ethereal fairy tail like a mopping dinner salute, only know to squeeze their heads to compete for that bit of rations. The smile on her face was a little sad, and she said to herself: "It's really ugly to eat." ”

"Auntie, why hasn't Uncle An come yet?"

"It should be soon." She looked up and saw the waiter placing a plate of delicate Napoleon pastry in front of the little girl: "You eat something to cushion your stomach first, and when my uncle comes, we will ask him if he wants to have dinner at this house." ”

"It's here, it's here! There are fish here, and after eating I want to go downstairs to see the fish! The little girl danced her opinion and grabbed her fork and stretched out the dessert in front of her. Click" - the sound of Napoleon's outer puff pastry shattering, successfully attracting the woman's eyes.

"It looks really crispy, how about it, is it delicious?"

The little girl jerkily picked up a piece of puff pastry covered with custard sauce with a fork and stuffed it into her mouth: "Hmm...... It's delicious, sweet, and fragrant! Auntie, would you like to try it? ”

The woman looked at the dim sum residue on the corner of her mouth, and reached over to help her wipe it: "Auntie doesn't eat it, you can drink milk, don't choke." Auntie asks you, is this delicious, or is the baby carrot crisp delicious? ”

The girl's eyebrows were raised, and her eyes widened exaggeratedly: "Of course this is delicious!" I like sweets the most. But Uncle Ann said that he and I don't like carrots, but carrots have a lot of nutrients, so we should try to start with baby carrot crisp and try to fall in love with carrots! ”

"yes, why haven't I heard him mention it." The woman looked away, and returned her attention to the pool downstairs, the group of beautiful figures, at this moment have returned to their leisurely daily life, after wiping their mouths, elegant--it is a package that can quickly return to its place. Is she, like them, never caring about eating, just because he is sure that he will quickly whitewash the peace after eating?

The first time she saw the child was at a resort on the outskirts of Beijing, and that day he led her to her, saying that it was his colleague's daughter, and that they had a meeting to go, so he had to ask her to help take care of the child. He said he was very fond of the little girl because she looked a bit like him when he was a child, with fleshy cheeks and a pair of less obvious dimples. She watched him pampering the little girl's face, and for a moment, she wanted to have a child for him.

She inadvertently asked about the girl's mother, and a subtle hint of boredom flashed on his face: "She seems to have to work overtime on weekends, and she will come over and send a few changes of clothes to the child in a while and leave." I'll go to the venue first, can you handle it yourself? ”

"No problem, I took the kids to see the fish, there was a pond of koi in the garden, it was beautiful." Thinking about it this way, the first time she played with this child was to watch fish together, two strange people, holding small hands with big hands, witnessing the embarrassment of a group of beautiful creatures. The child was so overjoyed that even her mother did not bother to say hello when she came to deliver the clothes, but stared intently at the precious flower clothes in the pond.

She politely exchanged a few words with the hard-working mother, the child did not look like her at all, and the mother's appearance was relatively ordinary. However, after ten minutes of meeting, she felt that people were just expressing gratitude and apologies, and she vaguely saw a trace of resentment in her eyes when she left, maybe she was thinking too much.

"Wow, the little princess is enjoying the food alone, and she doesn't even leave a bite for Uncle An!" The voice came from behind her, it was her boyfriend, yes.

"Why did you arrive so late, the coffee was cold, and I called you something else, right?" She saw him walk across from her and sit down next to the "little princess."

Before leaving the house, her father called her to receive a fax. Both of them have to work overtime tonight, so let's take the children out to eat and then come back. ”

"Well, then you ask the waiter to bring the menu, you two can order, I can eat anything." She knew that they would have dinner together, and every time she helped his colleague watch the children, he contributed money and effort, trying to behave like a perfect uncle in front of the "little princess" as much as possible. The "little princess" and his affection were really not covered, she carefully held up a piece of puff pastry covered in sauce with a fork, and put it into his mouth tremblingly, blinking her eyes wide and waiting for approval. The exaggerated expressions of encountering the impact of the delicious delicacies are really the same, and the two of them laugh at the same dragonfly dimples.

She shifted her ass uneasily, pursed her lips irritably, and watched the waiter wait for her to order, and she proposed, "I want to order a drink." ”

"Wow! It's a pity that I drove and can't drink with you. If you're in the mood, why don't you have a glass of wine with a French pan-fried lamb chops? He happily flipped through the menu, all of which he made for her, not noticing the unusual look on the other side.

"Yes."

"I want a country bean stew and more meal packs. And what about the little princess? It has to be your favorite creamy bacon mushroom pasta, right? give me five！ He gave her a high-five: "By the way, my dear, do you want to add another portion of this crisp, it's really good, it's a dessert." ”

"Don't!" She bluntly refused: "I ......, I don't like to eat such fragile and scummy things." ”

"Auntie, yes, yes, it's really delicious!" The little girl actively encouraged her to accept her uncle's suggestion, after all, the small piece of snack was eaten like this, and she was still a little dissatisfied.

"It's okay, let's order it! Uncle loves to eat this very much, aunt she doesn't understand food, since people call this 'crisp', how can there be a reason that it is not easy to break and not slag? Luckily, we both love the crunchy texture. Waiter, plus a bottle of ginger ale, thank you. ”

She suddenly felt that there was really nothing to be angry about, and the pair opposite might be the lovers in her previous life. At this moment, I seem a little redundant. She didn't intervene anymore, she only concentrated on drinking the red wine in her glass, intently cutting the lamb chops on her plate, intently observing the every move of the other side, silently measuring the speculation that had been breeding in her heart for a long time.

She asked for another glass of red wine, the red wine of this house tasted mellow, and there was no sourness at all, she really wanted to try to be a greedy person, but unfortunately she was not so easy to get drunk. He's different, he also likes to drink, it's just that he's easily drunk. She had often recalled a drunken time he had a year ago, and he was blushing and smiling. In her arms, he told a secret story about his friend: one of his friends was particularly unlucky, and during his newlywed, he invited a few colleagues to eat hot pot and drink a lot of wine at his house, and almost all of them drank down. At this time, the leader suddenly called his friend to go back to the unit to work overtime, and he left a room of drunk people without thinking about it, and his wife actually took advantage of the alcohol to have a relationship with one of them.

"Did he find out later?" She remembered how excited she was that day, because she couldn't control the nausea in her heart and the deep sympathy for the unlucky man.

"No, but ...... Slowly he began to have an epiphany, as his children grew up day by day, more and more friends around him said that the children did not look like him and did not look like his wife. Alas, you say bad luck or not? ”

"Who is that child like? Is it like his colleague? His wife has been cheating on that man? ”

"How is that possible! The strange thing is that the colleague has only had a relationship with his wife once, but the child is getting older and more like him. ”

"What's so strange about this, it's completely disgusting, okay! You should advise your friend that if he really has doubts, it is better to have his DNA tested and make a complete decision than to suffer all day. ”

"How can you think so easily of emotions in this world? There is no turning back after doing the test, after all, it is a child who pulls the big one hand, how can he say that he will let it go? A man is sometimes very fragile, and he may not be able to pass his own level. ”

There was another crisp "click" - the Napoleon crisp in front of the man was cut off at the waist, and the woman came back to her senses. She stared blankly at the sad snack, a layer of puff pastry, a layer of custard sauce, a few blueberries, and a layer of puff pastry, and the people who enjoyed it seemed to love chewing on the soft sauce wrapped in fragments under the fragile pinch.

"I'm done, go downstairs to see the fish first, and you two eat slowly." She calmly drank the remnants of the wine in her glass, picked up the handbag lying on the sofa, and went downstairs. The man didn't stop her, maybe he thought his girlfriend was going down to pay the bill first. She didn't linger any longer, and left the restaurant without hesitation, not glancing at the fish in the pool. She decided that she would never again linger on creatures that did not look good.

She thought she didn't need to be tested to make a judgment. After all, no one but the person involved can know the secret details of a single relationship that can lead to pregnancy. She smiled and shook her head, fortunately, she resisted the temptation of that smiling face and did not have another child for him.